On 09/13/2015 01:50 PM, Victor Denisov wrote:
>> I have been using Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/) on a few
>> projects and found it to be a good approach.
> 
> As a non-developer Freenet user, I can only express my wholehearted
> support for this approach. Current versioning strategy is *extremely*
> confusing to non-technical open source users accustomed to
> <major>.<minor>.<patch> versioning (i.e., build 1468 contains major,
> non-backwards compatible changes, and yet it is only separated by a
> single build number from a previous version).
> 
> Also, projects with major version not being incremented for what? 8
> years now, correct? - are often perceived as abandoned, which isn't what
> Freenet is probably looking for.

Currently 7 is the minor version and 0 the major, but indeed to both.
Thoughts on moving to semantic versioning? What version would the next
release be? How difficult will it be to adapt the auto-update system
from its current form of lock-step with the build number?

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